Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac know increasing floods and wildfires are a problem. Dealing with them, however, would require trade-offs.

Hiring bounced back after disruptions from storms and a major strike.

JD Vance and others on the “new right” say limiting immigration will raise wages and give jobs to sidelined Americans. Many studies suggest otherwise.

Expelling noncitizens on a mass scale is likely to raise prices on goods and services and lower employment rates for U.S. workers, many economists say.

U.S. payrolls grew by only 12,000 in October, a figure that left markets placid but fueled political contention. Unemployment remained 4.1 percent.

Economists expect the October data to show unusually weak job creation. But hurricanes and strikes may account for much of the shortfall.

Kamala Harris has leaned in with promises to aid start-ups, but proprietors are often more focused on taxes and regulations.

The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise between competing priorities. Evaluating the law on the effectiveness of the $7,500 tax credit for E.V.s is tricky.

The policy focus on the industry has changed from job quantity to job quality. And while federal incentives matter, local factors are more important.

Research on hundreds of tropical storms finds that mortality keeps rising for more than a decade afterward, for reasons you might not expect.